Teller was born in Budapest on January 15, 1908. He attended the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule, the University of Munich, and the University of Leipzig. He earned his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics at Leipzig in 1930. Teller's earliest research...

Trained as a theoretical physicist, Edward Teller became a leading authority on nuclear physics during the 1930s and was involved with the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was an early advocate of thermonuclear weapons, which are many times...

The Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller (born 1908)--sometimes called the "father" or the "architect" of the hydrogen bomb--was for decades on the forefront of the nuclear question and in the 1980s was an advocate of the Strategic Defense...

Edward Teller (1908–2003) was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 15, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and became known publicly as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." From the late 1940s until his death, he defended the...

1908- Hungarian Physicist Teller is one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. Until the end of the Cold War, he was one of the leading members of the military industrial complex. As a young boy, Edward Teller was introduced to extreme...

Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15 1908 – September 9 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title.[1]...

Edward Teller, master bombmaker, died on September 9th, aged 95 AT SEVEN in the morning of November 1st 1952 the United States exploded a device over the Pacific that came to be called the hydrogen bomb. According to a witness, the massive...

The Sept. 11 obituary of Edward Teller was a fascinating account of his contributions to science and society. But he also played a role in encouraging substantial federal aid to education, which led to passage of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. ...

History hovers nearby at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where John Adams' ambitious but uneven work about the creation of the atom bomb is being staged just a few miles from the site of the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction."Doctor Atomic," which had its...

Crazy-sounding ideas for saving the planet are getting a serious look from top scientists, a sign of their fears about global warming and the desire for an insurance policy in case things get worse.How crazy?There's the man-made "volcano" that shoots gigatons of sulfur high into...

Teller's efforts during the war years included work on the first nuclear reactor, theoretical calculations of the far-reaching effects of a fission explosion, and research on a potential fusion reaction. In 1941 Teller joined America's best physicists in the top secret Manhattan Project. The hope was to develop an atom bomb before the Germans.